Alright, I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t like some shells Ive bought (where ‘full Unix shell’ means you can ssh in and do about two other things…). I don’t think I’ll get a better deal with these promo codes, I’ll be signing up for an account asap. Thanks for all the help, I’m loving the fast and helpful replies

The shell is not really meant to be a personal playground for CPU-intensive jobs, but it’s not limited in ways you wouldn’t assume. Compilers are available, networking is available, custom binaries are no problem, unix groups can be set up, most tools you’d expect on a Debian install are present (lftp and mmv are absent though, so the more esoteric stuff you’ll have to compile yourself). In theory you could probably compile your own toolchain.